grab, wrestle, tussle, wrangle, struggle, grapple, clash, scrap, brace, tackle, challenge, threaten, arm, brawl, lock horns, skirmish, fall upon (one another), come to blows, scuffle, exchange blows, wrassle (informal – non-standard spelling of wrestle), rassle (non-standard spelling of wrestle), grab hold of, seize (someone's arm), draw weapons, feud, challenge (someone to a fight), descend into violence, call someone out, gird (for battle), throw fists
hack, maim, butcher, beat, club, bash, strangle, smother, choke, suffocate, hang, stab, destroy, slaughter, asphyxiate, commandeer, loot, pillage, ransack, finish someone off, execute, liquidate, annihilate, eliminate, exterminate, mow down, whip, flay, lynch, flagellate, torture, cut down, dispatch, drown, assassinate, string up, dismember, murder, slay, martyr, massacre, bump off, feed to the fishes, commit genocide